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  • #1

    A test of Willpower

    Ok, I've decided what I'm going to do. The game is released on Friday here in the UK - - and my birthday is on Saturday. So, as a test of willpower, I'm going to buy the game on Friday, and sit it on my shelf, unplayed, until Saturday. Do you reckon I can do that?

    If I get serious longings, I'll just satisfy myself with reading the manual.

    I'm also making this a poll, just 'cos I've never done one before.
    34
    Yes! The man has it in him.
    14.71%
    5
    Yes, but only if he reads the manual as a substitute
    29.41%
    10
    Of course not. The temptation is too great!
    55.88%
    19
    The church is the only organisation that exists for the benefit of its non-members
    Buy your very own 4-dimensional, non-orientable, 1-sided, zero-edged, zero-volume, genus 1 manifold immersed in 3-space!
    All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
    "They offer us some, but we have no place to store a mullet." - Chegitz Guevara
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  • #2
    Sheat man! You know you ain't gonna be able to resist. Your gonna keep staring at the box on the shelf until you break. I give you 2 hours after you've bought it!
    "To live again, to be.........again" Captain Kirk in some Star Trek Episode. (The one with the bad guy named Henok)
    "One day you may have to think for yourself and heaven help us all when that time comes" Some condescending jerk.

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    • #3
      Tell ya what, Chowlett. It's the game, and not the trimmings, that is the real reward for your birthday. I think spending birthday-eve reading the manual is a fantastic idea. Just think of the wonderful anticipation, trying to get to sleep, and then awakening early that next morning, bleary-eyed but blissful as you open that CD. It's like a birthday and early Christmas all rolled into one.

      Later, you'll be proud that you held to your honor. And that alone will make your gaming experience even greater. Enjoy.
      "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatum." — William of Ockham

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      • #4
        Happy birthday!
        BTW you forgot the option "Who cares!".
        Somebody told me I should get a signature.

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        • #5
          I predict you will start reading the manual at 8.30 friday evening and by 9.00 you will be soundly asleep.....

          /dev

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          • #6
            I have civ3 and I haven't played it for several days



            I hope the patch don't come out until after my exams
            We are the apt, you will be packaged.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Mannamagnus
              Happy birthday!
              BTW you forgot the option "Who cares!".
              The option is always implied in one of these polls, because you can always choose not to vote
              You're civin' like a fool, but what about DaddyCool?

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              • #8
                I gave you no. Your birthday is on Saturday, so the box should stay closed until Saturday. No opening the package before your birthday.

                If you open the box on Friday, you have already lost. Now, there's a challenge!
                To be one with the Universe is to be very lonely - John Doe - Datalinks

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                • #9
                  The vote stands at 2:2:10. Thanks for the vote of confidence guys

                  Personally I reckon I can get away with just the manual, and I think I can manage the whole box, but we'll have to see.
                  The church is the only organisation that exists for the benefit of its non-members
                  Buy your very own 4-dimensional, non-orientable, 1-sided, zero-edged, zero-volume, genus 1 manifold immersed in 3-space!
                  All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
                  "They offer us some, but we have no place to store a mullet." - Chegitz Guevara

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                  • #10
                    As a fellow Brit I shall be getting my copy on Saturday. It would be Friday but my boss and I have a difference of opinion over priorities.

                    I vote that you will be unable to resist. Your mind is weak and the force is strong with Civ.
                    There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.

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                    • #11
                      Well, I have it!

                      It's sitting on my shelf, excitingly shrinkwrapped, but I haven't opened it. And I'm not going to!

                      Or am I? Place your bets!
                      The church is the only organisation that exists for the benefit of its non-members
                      Buy your very own 4-dimensional, non-orientable, 1-sided, zero-edged, zero-volume, genus 1 manifold immersed in 3-space!
                      All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
                      "They offer us some, but we have no place to store a mullet." - Chegitz Guevara

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                      • #12
                        Do not open the box ever thats the only way to keep the game good.

                        When I got information that civ3 is coming in one week I was f***in exited. I went to civ3.com, read all "civ of the weeks" and all units here on apolyton. When I got the game in my hands and played it with great pleasure for about two days after I realized that this game is nothing compared to civ2. As I know the civ team is different no more microprose to make the game the whole game is only a mass selling product with cool looking graphics like command&conquer.
                        I am not complaying but saying that I am very disappointed, maybe patch will make it better but I doubt it. SO dont just open the box and you will enjoy the game more than playing it.

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                        • #13
                          Chowlette, if you have the game in your possession, are reading the manual, and expecting to sleep more than five or six hours that night, you're sorely mistaken.
                          DarkMatter

                          As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
                          -Christopher Dawson, The Judgment of Nations, 1942

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                          • #14
                            Well, the cellophane came off at 9:15 this morning, or thereabouts. Unfortunately, due to lectures I couldn't play until this afternoon, but I had a go at about 2-ish. I've only just stopped, and that's 'cos I need to do some real work.

                            Playing as Greeks on Warlord, all settings default. Just made it into the Mediaeval era (in 1080AD - is this good, bad or inifferent?), and it's good so far! I've met the romans, who are to my south across a narrow isthmus - they block my only source of iron (I posess only horses and about 5 gems ), so I'm going to have to try to assimilate them (too powerful for war); and the Aztecs, who are on another continent nearby. They've just thrown a size 1 city onto my land, near some well established cities of my own, so that one's not going to last! Haven't met anyone else yet, but they've been active! I've managed to build only the Pyramids, while others have got Collosus, Gardens, Lighthouse, Library, War Acadamy and Oracle! Yikes! This is quite humbling...
                            The church is the only organisation that exists for the benefit of its non-members
                            Buy your very own 4-dimensional, non-orientable, 1-sided, zero-edged, zero-volume, genus 1 manifold immersed in 3-space!
                            All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
                            "They offer us some, but we have no place to store a mullet." - Chegitz Guevara

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Yog-Sothoth
                              I have civ3 and I haven't played it for several days

                              I hope the patch don't come out until after my exams
                              I hear ya

                              Engineering Visualization 413 on Monday
                              Formal Methods in Software Design 401 on Wednesday
                              Cisco CCNA on Thursday
                              **Civ III on Friday!!**

                              Anyone spot the odd one out?

                              [grin]
                              Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
                              revolution inevitable.
                              -- John F. Kennedy

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